Russia

The Russia Journal 2 Feb 2003MOSCOW – Russia launched an unmanned cargo ship on a flight to the international space station Sunday, a day after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia threw future missions to the orbiting complex in doubt. The Progress M-47 lifted off atop a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:59 p.m. Moscow time…

MOSCOW – Security agents found explosives in two cars in a Moscow parking lot on Thursday, just days after reports of new threats of terrorist attacks by Chechen rebels in the Russian capital, according to news reports. The Interfax-Military News Agency reported that the explosives, which were disarmed by sappers, were equivalent to about 44 pounds of T…